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Here's a classic, 1993 Lamborghini Diablo. Probably my favorite Lambo of all time, just love the styling, and how much wider those rear fenders are than the front, along with those mongo wide rear tires.
^ Man I really like the mid 90's Seville STS. Beautiful car, great looking interior, great engine(when it ran right). Its a pity they were so poorly engineered and slapped together no better than a $20,000 Buick. So many issues with those, including the fatal tendency to eat headgaskets, which was a $3-4k bill to fix since the whole engine, transmission, and front axle assembly had to come out the bottom of the car. What is really sad is GM never did fix the headgasket issue, it was a problem the entire 10 year model run for those cars.
^ Man I really like the mid 90's Seville STS. Beautiful car, great looking interior, great engine(when it ran right). Its a pity they were so poorly engineered and slapped together no better than a $20,000 Buick. So many issues with those, including the fatal tendency to eat headgaskets, which was a $3-4k bill to fix since the whole engine, transmission, and front axle assembly had to come out the bottom of the car. What is really sad is GM never did fix the headgasket issue, it was a problem the entire 10 year model run for those cars.
My Dad had a black 95 STS before he got the LS400 in 98. It was a beautiful car, stunning in fact. But it was indeed quite poorly built, he had numerous reliability issues even early in its life (he only had it 3 years until +/- 60k miles). Most notably one time the wood trim on the drivers door fell off when he shut it lol. The interiors were pretty backwards too, switchgear and readouts were well behind other carmakers at the time, and the HVAC controls being next to the gauge cluster behind the steering wheel, out of the passenger's reach.
It was the car that finally got him to give up on American cars.
^ I really don't get why GM couldn't get those FWD Northstar Cadillacs right from a quality/engineering standpoint. I had a couple of the good old "Cadillacs with a Chevy engine" that were rock solid reliable, a 1995 Fleetwood and a 1991 Brougham D'elgance. Drove that 1991 from 100k to 150k over 4 years, not a single damn problem other than the brakes and headliner, best car I ever owned. Car was 20 years old when I sold it, still looked fabulous, great chrome, great paint, no rust, mint leather, etc.
Just one of those things, it was a hard time for them in general. He had come off of a 1990 Lincoln Continental before that, so he had some quality issues there too lol
The materials inside were actually quite good. Leather quality was very good, all the plastics and such had a nice feel. The "zebrine" wood was very nice and solid looking with the chrome "Cadillac" script over the glove box. Switchgear was really behind like I said, but that was improved for 1996.
96 Dash (this is an SLS not an STS, you can tell because the wood trim isn't the length of the door and there isn't any on the console:
Just one of those things, it was a hard time for them in general. He had come off of a 1990 Lincoln Continental before that, so he had some quality issues there too lol
The materials inside were actually quite good. Leather quality was very good, all the plastics and such had a nice feel. The "zebrine" wood was very nice and solid looking with the chrome "Cadillac" script over the glove box. Switchgear was really behind like I said, but that was improved for 1996.
96 Dash (this is an SLS not an STS, you can tell because the wood trim isn't the length of the door and there isn't any on the console:
Like I said, they were one of the most beautiful piles of ***** I've ever seen. Seriously they were way nicer on the interior and drove way nicer than my old RWD "Chevyllacs", but even when I was looking back in 2007ish for a Cadillac, the 1990's Sevilles were hard to find except in a junkyard.
Like I said, they were one of the most beautiful piles of ***** I've ever seen.
We owned one. It was a 96 model. What an amazing car. Very nice looking and great interior. I believe the 96 had an updated interior over the 95. What a plush interior with awesome features. The wood was fantastic. Ride was great too.
It's too bad Cadillac could not look 20 years down the road and have some sort of structured forward thinking. If they did, they would not have the image issues they are having now. The 90s STS with the Northstar WAS the car that could of done so much for Cadillac.
Even though it was FWD, the specs and performance were very good. The following up redesign in 1998 was also fantastic.
It is ironic that the switch to RWD in 2004 failed to move the needle for Cadillac.
I must say, our 1996 STS was horribly unreliable and very poorly built. We had so many problems. By the end of it, the truck was zipped tied closed, and the transmissions could not get the vehicle past 80km which made it a city car only.
Still remember the seperate keys would remember the driver settings, the truck had the pull down feature as you closed it (broke).
Cool things were, a heated windshield which was an option, Zebrano wood trim which had the coolest name, rainsense wipers, magnetic steering, and a Bose radio system which I think was GM exclusive at the time.
Not sure if anyone remembers, but it came with two zip code key tags that you would drop in a mail box. I think they were postage paid if I recall correctly. Does anyone remember these small little tags?
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